Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [BUG] apply-delta target directory

[Aaron Bentley]

David Allouche wrote:
> "tla apply-delta REV-A REV-B" applies the delta changeset to the current
> directory, not the tree-root.

Yeah, I thought that was odd behaviour too.  I wasn't sure if there was 
some reasonable reason for behaving this way, though of course, scripts 
like aba change-version can avoid this by manually specifying the tree root.

It comes down to the two-faced nature of delta.  If you run delta in a 
non-Arch tree, it will compare to the current directory.  If you run 
delta in an arch tree, it will compare to the tree-root.

Given that behaviour, I guess it's reasonable to expect apply-delta to 
behave the same way.  If people really want to apply the changeset to 
the wrong directory, they can use delta and apply-changeset.

Aaron

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Aaron Bentley
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Panometrics, Inc.